Quality of Life and Functional Health Status of Long-Term Meditators

Table 5

Comparison of the MH score for each MS category with Australian normative values for MH score.

TA Category	Number in sample	MS category mean score	MS category score SD	𝑇	Df	Significance	Mean difference
Several times per day	172	87.98	10.04	15.97	171	0.001	12.22
Once or twice per day	98	85.35	10.46	9.07	97	0.001	9.59
Once or twice per week	38	81.05	12.04	2.71	37	0.010	5.30
Once or twice per month	13	74.46	22.30	−0.21	12	0.838	−1.29
Less than once per month	13	71.69	21.45	−0.68	12	0.508	−4.06